{"id":49131,"date":"2022-12-14T22:27:05","date_gmt":"2022-12-15T03:27:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=49131"},"modified":"2022-12-14T22:27:05","modified_gmt":"2022-12-15T03:27:05","slug":"thats-a-whole-lot-of-words-to-say-because-we-suck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=49131","title":{"rendered":"That\u2019s a whole lot of words to say \u201cbecause we suck\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

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lol\u2019d heartily<\/a>: San Francisco Giants GM Farhan Zaidi tries to explain the difficulty of signing free agents because nobody likes the city<\/span><\/p>\n

I remember when my baseball travels took me to San Francisco, I looked forward to the trip.\u00a0 Years of watching stuff like Full House<\/em> and Mrs. Doubtfire<\/em> made the city seem like a pretty cool place, but at the same time, as a sports fan, I was a little skeptical, because as far as baseball was concerned, it became pretty common knowledge that San Francisco was the city that was 69F all year long, and their sports fans were among the most insufferably obnoxious ones in existence.<\/span><\/p>\n

All the same, I looked forward to the trip as I did most all of my baseball trips, because regardless of the preconceived notions, it was still a place I\u2019d never been to before, and I always relished the opportunity to see new places.<\/span><\/p>\n

After my trip was over, I had decided that it was a good enough trip, but as a whole, I really wasn\u2019t that impressed with San Francisco.\u00a0 Everything everywhere was ridiculously expensive, the weather really was static, and it was just a difficult city to traverse in general.\u00a0 As far as ballparks were concerned, I thought Oakland\u2019s decrepit mausoleum of a ballpark was the better place to watch a game, and the sports culture was everything I had expected before going there.\u00a0 Giants clearly cared more about the scene than they did the team, and even when they were getting stomped by the rival A\u2019s, the fans still went ballistic for the Fist Pump Cam, and I\u2019d never felt more embarrassed for other human beings in my entire life.<\/span><\/p>\n

Despite the hype and perception and the self-importance from those in the Bay area, San Francisco was not a city I am that fond of, and I have little motive to want to visit again without good reason.<\/span><\/p>\n

So I was quite tickled pink to read this article where the Giants\u2019 GM Farhan Zaidi maybe said a little too much in an interview, because he basically said that free agents don\u2019t want to sign with his team because the city kind of sucks.\u00a0 He cited a couple of things that were not at all sports-related, and the author of the aforementioned story injected a little bit more of their own opinion into the article trying to smokescreen it as Zaidi\u2019s.<\/span><\/p>\n

But they mention stuff like homelessness and drug problems in the city, and although they don\u2019t expressly say it, their use of sociological factors is basically trying to skirt around the fact that San Francisco is pretty well known to be one of the gayest cities in America, and I don\u2019t say that with any hint of criticism or animosity, after all I\u2019m in Atlanta, which is probably right behind them in population of the LGBTQ+.<\/span><\/p>\n

Ballplayers probably don\u2019t care about homelessness or drug use in the city, what they\u2019re more likely to care about it the fact that it\u2019s an expensive as fuck city to live in, and even the biggest of superstars are going to have a hard time trying to find a place to live, having to compete with all tech millionaires and billionaires that live in Silicon Valley.\u00a0 Over the last few years, there have been numerous professional athletes who have turned away opportunities to play in New York and Canada over anticipated tax costs, and gone to places like Texas and Florida where tax laws aren\u2019t as costly, they get that granular with their money.\u00a0 San Francisco and the highest real estate costs in the country aren\u2019t very likely to be that attractive to anyone, much less professional athletes.<\/span><\/p>\n

Maybe the more country bumpkin athletes might have an objection with living in a blue state full of the gays, but it\u2019s more likely that what will drive them away is a city with horrendous traffic and mountainous hills where they can\u2019t drive their sports cars around in and have any fun, but it really was hilarious that the author of the post cited being the home to Nancy Pelosi as a potential reason why Aaron Judge wouldn\u2019t sign there.<\/span><\/p>\n

The thing is, no life-long Bay area resident would ever publicly decry their hometown to anyone other than other Bay area lifers.\u00a0 Hometown criticism is like mom jokes, as in only we are allowed to make them, but coming from outside us, fuck you.\u00a0 So it makes it that much more entertaining to me, that a notable representative of the city in the form of the hometown baseball club\u2019s general manager goes on the record to point out all the faults why free agents wouldn\u2019t want to sign there.\u00a0 I\u2019m sure he\u2019s going to be a popular fellow until the next shiny distraction emerges.<\/span><\/p>\n

Naturally, at the time I\u2019m writing this, word drops that the Giants succeeded in signing shortstop Carlos Correa to a 13-year megadeal worth $350 million.\u00a0 Most interestingly about the initial details is that I\u2019ve noticed that there are no opt-out clauses, which means I really hope Correa likes the city, because he\u2019s going to be there for quite some time.\u00a0 Hopefully he knew what he was getting himself into, otherwise it\u2019s going to suuuuuck.<\/span><\/p>\n

Either way speaking of suuuuuuuck, suck it, San Francisco.\u00a0 Y\u2019all are an overrated city that nobody outside of it likes.\u00a0 I relish in the fact that coronavirus exposed the town more than any other in America and their ridiculous real estate market took a notable hit, and it almost nearly gets some blood flow to hear that the Giants\u2019 own GM think the city sucks too.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

lol\u2019d heartily: San Francisco Giants GM Farhan Zaidi tries to explain the difficulty of signing free agents because nobody likes the city I remember when my baseball travels took me to San Francisco, I looked forward to the trip.\u00a0 Years of watching stuff like Full House and Mrs. Doubtfire made the city seem like a … Continue reading That\u2019s a whole lot of words to say \u201cbecause we suck\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[62,79,45,78,83,52,58,65],"class_list":["post-49131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-baseball","tag-cashmoney","tag-fail","tag-lowered-expectations","tag-observations","tag-owned","tag-sports","tag-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49131"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49131\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49133,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49131\/revisions\/49133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}